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I certainly hope this dystopia will never happen, and VR will still be a fringe niche.

dylan604 5y ago
As long as it requires strapping a headset to your face which blocks all vision of the real world, I agree with this sentiment. I want a full on holodeck level set up for VR. However, I'm much more willing to accept a set of "glasses" that provides for a useable AR experience. The catch here would be that we can have the lenses still be prescribed corrective lenses. Build a frame that modern lens makers can make lenses for, yet still keep all the electronic wizardry.
- simonh 5y ago
  The system described in the article uses cameras to provide an in-headset view of the real world. I’ve no idea if that’s good enough relative to transparent goggles though.
  - dylan604 5y ago
    I understand, just stating what/where/why my limitations exist. It still a thing strapped to my face. That's the main non-starter for anything more than novel use (sub-15 minutes). Also, knowing lensing, I'd be very suspect if these provide the peripheral vision correctly. Or could display the peripheral correctly.
eropple 5y ago
I hope not, too, and I really don't understand the desire to wear a HMD all day. Are these folks' lives so empty that this is better than just, like...being present? I can lean a little to the right and see my dog from where I sit to work and there are windows with good natural light all over the place. Why would I want to shut everything out? Work isn't life.
- palijer 5y ago
  What is to say you can't have both? Cameras and overlaying the display with the real world is already being done. Simply throwing up a work env as a HUD around the real world isn't at all beyond the reach of cures t tech. So you can see your dog and natural light, and have everything overplayed by an HMD as AR around you.
- Flankk 5y ago
  You can scan your pets in Meta. They can then travel the Metaverse with you. Once the AI training completes, your pet's personality will be synced to the cloud. Your dog will now be with you forever so you can happily put the meatspace version to sleep.
  - ggm 5y ago
    > Your dog will now be with you forever so you can happily put the meatspace version to sleep. Remember this phrase.
- least 5y ago
  > I hope not, too, and I really don't understand the desire to wear a HMD all day. Not everyone is privileged enough to live in an environment perfectly suitable for work or living their life. A virtual world creates space that doesn't actually exist but is still quite useful for the person working inside of it. I don't own a movie theater but I could potentially enjoy the experience of one with VR. It would also enable me to arbitrarily define my workspace in such a way that is not even physically possible in the real world. For example, I have large studio monitors that physically require there to not be obstructions in front of them, which creates constraints on the size and placement of my display(s). In a virtual world that sort of limitation doesn't exist. I could still sit at my same desk with the same studio monitors but with a limitless space for the displays that could be placed exactly where they're most useful, without concerns for obstructing the studio monitors. > Are these folks' lives so empty that this is better than just, like...being present? Why would you infer that people's lives are 'so empty' just because they find using VR appealing? Even if someone wanted to spend 100% of their time in the 'virtual world,' what exactly about that makes their life empty?

As long as it requires strapping a headset to your face which blocks all vision of the real world, I agree with this sentiment. I want a full on holodeck level set up for VR. However, I'm much more willing to accept a set of "glasses" that provides for a useable AR experience. The catch here would be that we can have the lenses still be prescribed corrective lenses. Build a frame that modern lens makers can make lenses for, yet still keep all the electronic wizardry.

simonh 5y ago
The system described in the article uses cameras to provide an in-headset view of the real world. I’ve no idea if that’s good enough relative to transparent goggles though.
- dylan604 5y ago
  I understand, just stating what/where/why my limitations exist. It still a thing strapped to my face. That's the main non-starter for anything more than novel use (sub-15 minutes). Also, knowing lensing, I'd be very suspect if these provide the peripheral vision correctly. Or could display the peripheral correctly.

eropple 5y ago

I hope not, too, and I really don't understand the desire to wear a HMD all day. Are these folks' lives so empty that this is better than just, like...being present? I can lean a little to the right and see my dog from where I sit to work and there are windows with good natural light all over the place. Why would I want to shut everything out? Work isn't life.

palijer 5y ago
What is to say you can't have both? Cameras and overlaying the display with the real world is already being done. Simply throwing up a work env as a HUD around the real world isn't at all beyond the reach of cures t tech. So you can see your dog and natural light, and have everything overplayed by an HMD as AR around you.
Flankk 5y ago
You can scan your pets in Meta. They can then travel the Metaverse with you. Once the AI training completes, your pet's personality will be synced to the cloud. Your dog will now be with you forever so you can happily put the meatspace version to sleep.
- ggm 5y ago
  > Your dog will now be with you forever so you can happily put the meatspace version to sleep. Remember this phrase.
least 5y ago
> I hope not, too, and I really don't understand the desire to wear a HMD all day. Not everyone is privileged enough to live in an environment perfectly suitable for work or living their life. A virtual world creates space that doesn't actually exist but is still quite useful for the person working inside of it. I don't own a movie theater but I could potentially enjoy the experience of one with VR. It would also enable me to arbitrarily define my workspace in such a way that is not even physically possible in the real world. For example, I have large studio monitors that physically require there to not be obstructions in front of them, which creates constraints on the size and placement of my display(s). In a virtual world that sort of limitation doesn't exist. I could still sit at my same desk with the same studio monitors but with a limitless space for the displays that could be placed exactly where they're most useful, without concerns for obstructing the studio monitors. > Are these folks' lives so empty that this is better than just, like...being present? Why would you infer that people's lives are 'so empty' just because they find using VR appealing? Even if someone wanted to spend 100% of their time in the 'virtual world,' what exactly about that makes their life empty?